Helm chart numeric values bigger than or equal to 1000000 is converted to exponential form

[maeb]

Issue

We configured:

# values.yaml
max_pages_per_crawl: 1000000

This ends up in the configmap backend-env-config as:

MAX_PAGES_PER_CRAWL: "1e+06"

which does not play nice with:

browsertrix/backend/btrixcloud/main.py

Line 156 in 5de23f9

maxPagesPerCrawl=int(os.environ.get("MAX_PAGES_PER_CRAWL", 0)),

The conversion to exponential form is helm's doing:

browsertrix/chart/templates/configmap.yaml

Line 41 in 5de23f9

MAX_PAGES_PER_CRAWL: "{{ .Values.max_pages_per_crawl | default 0 }}"

See helm/helm#12195.

Workaround

Seems like a workaround is to use quotes (not tested):

# values.yaml
max_pages_per_crawl: "1000000"